Google to Tackle PS4 and Xbox One With Their Android Gaming Console?

Yes, you heard it right. Google now plans to enter the gaming industry with their own gaming console based on Android operating system.

After Sony’s launch of SmartWatch 2, it was only awhile before rumours of the next Smartwatch being developed by Google, Samsung and Apple began doing rounds. However, this news surprised us a bit and threw us off track. It was not the news of Google developing its own Smartwatch that stunned us so much but rather the news of Google developing their own gaming console.

Yes, you heard it right. Google now plans to enter the gaming industry with their own gaming console based on Android operating system. After taking on the smartphone world with the launch of Nexus devices and acquiring Motorola, Google’s next target is the gaming industry.

According to a report by AFP, the California-based Internet titan is out to expand its hardware line-up to include a new version of a Nexus Q digital media device introduced last year but never brought to market. Nexus Q was Google’s media system operating on Android ICS version 4.0. However, the device never saw the light of the day as Google’s plans sounded too ambitious with poor specifications to support the price.

While Nexus Q was not exactly a gaming console, looks like Google plans to review their project and give it the shape of a gaming console this time around. Also, it might spell trouble for Sony PS4 as so far Sony has managed to outdo Microsoft at their Xbox and also with Xbox One.

The rumours have gotten stronger post news of Apple reviving plans of the Apple TV Box. Though Apple’s TV Box might not exactly be a gaming console, looks like rival Google prefers to have their tracks covered.

Apart from the news of the gaming console, Google’s SmartWatch news are also re-fuelled by a leak from the company. Google is apparently installing “brains” into a broad range of devices and machines in a bid to make them “smarter”. So does this mean we have not only a gaming console and a smartwatch from Google in the offing but a host of other Smart Gadgets?

We though Samsung fancied themselves being the dictators. Looks like Google is soon catching up. What next? Smarter Robots to replace humans? All down on your knees and hail Google now!